With an eye upon the rapidly improving future prospects of China based technological firms and perhaps in an attempt to bolster its diminished presence in the country, Google has recently acquired a minority stake in Beijing-based artificial intelligence firm Mobvoi. This is not the first time that the corporations have come in contact with each other. Google has used the services of the AI firm in the past for its Android Wear operating system, where Mobvoi helped out with perfecting the Chinese-language voice search option. The fact that Google choose the three-year old Mobvoi to make an investment in China may also have been somewhat influenced by the fact that CEO Zhifei Li and CTO Mike Lei, are both ex-Googlers and were once associated with Google US as research scientists. According to a statement by Li to TechCrunch, We used the…